Product Systems Validation Engineer

Cummins • Columbus, IN

16h • $67,200 - $100,800

About The Position

This entry level/early career professional, product focused position verifies and validates the functionality of Cummins’ products across a wide range of customer requirements, across a variety of applications, in various environments. This work plans, tracks, and evaluates results from a wide range of analyses and functional tests to assess product risk and performance. These results are expected to drive quality decisions and proactively resolve product issues before the product reaches the customer.

Requirements

• Entry level/early career professional
• Product focused
• Ability to plan, track, and evaluate results from analyses and functional tests
• Ability to assess product risk and performance
• Ability to drive quality decisions and proactively resolve product issues
• Ability to negotiate with stakeholders
• Ability to define technical requirements
• Ability to deliver optimized component-based analytical and experimental verification plans
• Ability to make decisions impacting product performance, reliability, and durability
• Ability to investigate and address potential component concerns or issues
• Ability to understand causal mechanisms
• Ability to recommend appropriate action
• Ability to own problem resolution
• Ability to document results with guidance
• Ability to apply and support improvement of processes (technical requirements, iDFMEA, ESW, DVP&R, test planning, problem solving)
• Ability to use tools such as Integrity, Microsoft Power BI, and McParts
• Ability to enable high quality decision making
• Ability to own problem resolution for moderately complex components, products, systems, subsystems or services
• Ability to execute established work processes and systems independently
• Ability to develop technology or product knowledge
• Ability to engage with the improvement of systems and processes
• Ability to coordinate and direct work amongst technicians and/or temporary student employees
• Ability to contribute effectively toward team goals
• Ability to exhibit influence within a work group
• Ability to develop proficiency in competency areas critical to success

Responsibilities

• Obtains input and negotiates with Design Verification Plan and Report (DVP&R) stakeholders to define technical requirements and delivers an optimized component-based analytical and experimental verification plan to the program or project team.
• Makes decisions in the areas of verification and validation that impact product performance, reliability, and durability.
• Investigates and addresses potential component concerns or issues, understands causal mechanisms, recommends appropriate action, owns problem resolution and documents results with guidance from more experienced team members.
• Applies and supports the improvement of processes such as technical requirements, iDFMEA, Engineering Standard Work (ESW), DVP&R, test planning, and problem solving and tools such as Integrity, Microsoft Power BI, and McParts required to support the processes and enable high quality decision making.
• Owns problem resolution for moderately complex components, products, systems, subsystems or services with technical complexity and ambiguity increasing as experience is gained in the role.
• Provides independent execution of established work processes and systems, while still developing technology or product knowledge; engages with the improvement of systems and processes.
• Involves minimal direct management of people, but could involve the coordination and direction of work amongst technicians and/or temporary student employees.
• Contributes effectively toward team goals, exhibits influence within a work group and continues to develop proficiency in the competency areas critical to success in the role.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed